STARKVILLE, Miss. - After helping
the Mississippi State softball team reach the NCAA Tournament this past spring,
volunteer assistant coach Kelsi Dunne has accepted a position as the pitching
coach for Oklahoma State University, MSU Head Coach Vann Stuedeman announced
Thursday morning.

"Kelsi helped our 2012 staff
lower our ERA by two runs a game from the previous season and she will be
sorely missed," said Stuedeman. "She is like a daughter to me and I
could not be more proud of her and excited for her."

In
her first year in a coaching capacity, Dunne helped the same five Bulldog
pitchers lower their school-record high 4.90 ERA from 2011 to a much more
manageable 2.88 clip this past spring. As a volunteer, Dunne helped create
pitching game plans, develop pitchers in the circle on a daily basis and served
as a pitcher for the MSU offense in batting practice.

To
find out more information on the MSU softball program, including its fall
exhibition schedule that begins later this month, follow the team on Twitter at
@MStateSB and like the team on Facebook at Facebook.com/MStateSB.